I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and highly recommend it. Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC.

I should have known better when I selected this ARC to read and review. Dr. Hulshof is an associate professor at Liberty University's Divinity School and follows that understanding of Biblical Study. What do I mean by that: In the beginning of the book he writes "The foundational belief of this book is that the Old Testament is the inspired, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God and God's own revelation of himself through the words of its human authors." To be honest, I could have closed the book at that point. We can argue about inerrancy all day long, but it is a fairly new concept that was not known or embraced by the ancient authors of the Hebrew Bible.

That understand taints the entire work. Later Hulshof writes, "The entirety of the Old Testament provides a diverse but unified portrayal of the person and character of God." I would strongly disagree. I don't find a unified portrayal of God, but rather a multiplicities of ways of seeing and understand God throughout the Hebrew's experience. For a simple and accessible way of seeing this developed I highly recommend Zach Lambert's new book Better Ways to Read the Bible.

I cannot recommend this book to anyway who wants to be challenged by the Hebrew text and wrestle with their understanding of it. This is a great book for anyone who wants to be told what to thing about the scripture.

Thanks to NetGalley and B&H Academic Press for an ARC in exchange for my unbiased review.